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Bit of sentimental chat about sheep we have loved and who have passed.
Love your creatures while you can ❤
I’ve long been a fan of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City…watching the characters evolve and have adventures over 5 decades has been a joy to follow. And at the heart of it is Mrs Madrigal. The perfect landlady and granny…and yes she’s #trans. It wouldn’t work without her.
Great to hear Maupin’s warmth and defiance.
This is the first in a series of conversations we’ll be filming, with Armistead reflecting on what’s happening in politics today—queer and otherwise.Christopher Turner (Barbary Lane Dispatches)
There is still much to be enjoyed in the later ones…and they are beautifully good books to tear through at pace I find!
I think it must have been too painful to write about the characters for a long period…but I’m really glad he returned to them.
The non-consensual #AI has hit Youtube now
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission
YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?Thomas Germain (BBC)
in general I just hate how p2p is so damn neglected with modern tech, it's now extremely easy to send real time video to a server to the other side of the world
but it's a pain in the ass to have basic communication between two devices on the same room without an intermediary (in an open way, I know that for example apple devices so some direct connection stuff, but it's a proprietary closed system)
This kind of blew my mind. Compare this enormous camera stabilization system from 1970 with the gimbal on a $299 DJI drone in 2025. Incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO9PC8dnXdQ
John Parry reports on a new, remote control, gyro-balanced film camera that can be mounted to a vehicle on the end of a suspended boom. Equipped with three g...YouTube
spreading a rumor that the only way to prevent petrification by the medusa is to kiss her in the few seconds it takes you to turn to stone
it doesn't work, but it does make the statues look a whole lot funnier
A reminder alert popped up.
"Oh," the Supervisor said, "it's time to check in on Sol-3 again. Szrpt, can you handle that?"
Szrpt bowed a frond. "Yes, of course."
"Don't forget to reset the killer asteroid if the sapients pose no threat."
"Once!" Szrpt bristled. "I only forgot that once!"
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesThe Janitor · Celestial NavigationsChapter I℗ 2006 Geoff Levin MusicReleased on: 1986-01-01Auto-generated by Yo...YouTube
bad idea: full length isa card with strings and solenoids.
the strings are pulled taught, and the solenoids pluck the strings.
real music inside your IBM PC 5150
So far, nobody has considered the problems of adequately reproducing Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture, scored for a battery of cannons.
OTOH, "letting the smoke out" is something semiconductor users are quite good at.
Guide to Paper Airplanes
Lessons are better learned mid-flight (I guess). Hyperious, the otter, takes the captain’s seat, steering their oversized paper airplane. Nova the raccoon and Wren hold on for dear life, meanwhile for Av, the rubber husky, it’s the best rollercoaster ever built.
Don’t worry, though, they all landed safely… eventually.
Picture for illustrating a panel that Hyperious and all his crew are running at BFC
Featuring Hyperious, Nova, Wren and AvWuff
Digital. Procreate
If you want to take a look on the short time-lapse process video of this piece, you can watch it on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
There is also a longer version with all the process of it, I shared it exclusive for Ko-Fi and Patreon supporters. You can join, check it out, and also check all the process videos I record (or export from Procreate, like in this case), and check some WIPs and more drawings that I haven't posted yet on my galleries. Your support would help me a lot to keep creating more art.
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Walkin' into your club all like
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📷 Dracorum Order
🌍 Yorkshire Furs Summer Party 2025
⌚ #FursuitFriday
It's another #fursuitfriday ! :D
At LFM Summer party with dolbyhyena.bsky.social
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I just made some edits to a short (3000ish words, an approx 12-minute read) fursuity, science-fictiony, huggy, possibly very slightly kinky, time travelly story I wrote recently and it's now in a state where I think I'm happy to show it to people.
Huh, an interesting little sculpture creator, Hero Forge. I assembled this beartaur. Pity I can't swap out the hooves for paws, or make the lower body a bit less horse-like, but at least they have bear tails available.
In the veggie garden, Chase, the ferret-cheetah boy, has found himself a very simple task: to shoo the chicken away. He chases after a flapping ball of feathers.
Picture for Chase.
Traditional. Watercolors
I recorded a time-lapse video of the process of this painting, I got to record most of the scene but sadly my phone stopped recording it almost in the end (the app I use to record the video ran out of allowed memory and I didn't notice, I kept painting), but most of the process was recorded anyway, you can watch it on the first comment on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
That's a very short version of it, but there is an extended versio of that video, exclusive for Patreon and Ko-Fi supporters. You can support me to keep living out of doing what I love to do the most, and I give you access to all the high resolution files, scanned files of the traditional art work, all the full process videos, access to see my drawings before I post them online, WIPs, exclusive merch, and more.
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This is wildly cute. I can't believe it only has 8100 views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1beEuBV7M0
Blahaj has an unforeseeable snack emergency in the middle of the night but the only thing open is Våffelhus. And we all know what happens at Våffelhus at 3 a...YouTube
Silly frogs. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMGyTU2nDPg
What does frog do.I made this in Blender also made the song to go along with it. No frogs were harmed in the making of this animation. Do not try this at hom...YouTube
Finally (only a year after moving in) got round to asking a glass company for a quote for refurbishing the double glazed panels in this house which have water sitting inside them.
Only took a year to send an email, I feel accomplished.
I think he likes you... 💖
New dance choreo/cover! Really Like You - BABYMONSTER.
Was also my first time doing some more detailed editing. Hope you like!
https://youtube.com/shorts/MtLs2Lhiijk?si=WXzdmnLqNed0HTNk #choreo #dance #fursuit
I think he likes you... 💖 First time doing more detailed video editing on this! Hope you enjoy! ^^YouTube
Very nice! 😄
(But FYI it's worth removing the "?si=" and the part afterwards from YouTube links as that's Google's tracking code.)
Content warning: "there's no reception in possum springs" is such a 'yeah, same' poem. night in the woods optional content spoilers btw I guess
Am EE, can confirm. The first page is written by marketing, the rest is written by Engineers.
Unless they're STM datasheets in which case all bets are off.
@philpem
For any sufficiently advanced device, the datasheet is at best aspirational, and at worst, a work of fiction.
Teaching sand to think was a mistake.
Another shot from Anthro Irish, vibing with two of my favourite and most wholesome and lovely dragon celebrities @azakir and Arkie!
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⌚ #FursuitFriday
I have a tasty breakfast option for you here! I think even sneps would enjoy it if there is were any around anywhere... @kieran #FursuitFriday
Photo by Dethbox
It's #fursuitfriday ! :D
Squeezin' some last bits of accordion practise in before my set tomorrow at coreelement 😱
📸 shadowengineer_ux (discord)
Well, I’ll never be able to watch that movie quite the same way again. 😜🤪
Recorder by Candlelight - Christmas Album out now!Streaming Links - https://hypeddit.com/recorderbycandlelight/ultimatechristmasclassicsvolume1Social:Instagr...YouTube
![[ENGLISH]
the beginning of the war will remain secret
I can think of nothing more prescient than this sentence, which figures in a work by artist Jenny Holzer (Untitled, 1987). Such is our state of denial that we refuse to admit that the whole world is at war, or soon will be. We delude ourselves that as long as the bombs are not falling directly on us but on our neighbours, we are less involved and are untouched by the consequences.
The origin of the war is an open secret, but one only mentioned sotto voce, for fear that someone will notice us, drop a missile on our heads and blow us to bits.
[DEUTSCH]
der kriegsbeginn wird geheim bleiben
Ich finde, in keinem Satz steckt mehr Vorahnung als in diesem, der in einem Werk von Jenny Holzer vorkommt (Untitled, 1987).
Wir befinden uns in einem derartigen Zustand der Leugnung, dass wir nicht wahrhaben wollen, dass die ganze Welt sich im Krieg befindet oder bald befinden wird. Wir wiegen uns in der Illusion, dass wir, solange die Bomben nicht direkt auf unsere Köpfe fallen, sondern auf die unserer Nachbarn, nicht so stark involviert sind, dass die Folgen uns nicht betreffen. Der Ursprung des Kriegs ist ein Geheimnis, das jeder kennt, über das man aber nur unter vorgehaltener Hand spricht, aus Angst, dass jemand uns bemerkt, uns eine Rakete auf den Hals schickt und uns in die Luft sprengt.](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/816955 "[ENGLISH]
the beginning of the war will remain secret
I can think of nothing more prescient than this sentence, which figures in a work by artist Jenny Holzer (Untitled, 1987). Such is our state of denial that we refuse to admit that the whole world is at war, or soon will be. We delude ourselves that as long as the bombs are not falling directly on us but on our neighbours, we are less involved and are untouched by the consequences.
The origin of the war is an open secret, but one only mentioned sotto voce, for fear that someone will notice us, drop a missile on our heads and blow us to bits.
[DEUTSCH]
der kriegsbeginn wird geheim bleiben
Ich finde, in keinem Satz steckt mehr Vorahnung als in diesem, der in einem Werk von Jenny Holzer vorkommt (Untitled, 1987).
Wir befinden uns in einem derartigen Zustand der Leugnung, dass wir nicht wahrhaben wollen, dass die ganze Welt sich im Krieg befindet oder bald befinden wird. Wir wiegen uns in der Illusion, dass wir, solange die Bomben nicht direkt auf unsere Köpfe fallen, sondern auf die unserer Nachbarn, nicht so stark involviert sind, dass die Folgen uns nicht betreffen. Der Ursprung des Kriegs ist ein Geheimnis, das jeder kennt, über das man aber nur unter vorgehaltener Hand spricht, aus Angst, dass jemand uns bemerkt, uns eine Rakete auf den Hals schickt und uns in die Luft sprengt.")
"Be a human being and let people be who they are." Love it!
I read the first six books, probably around 1990. Loved them all except for the last of them, but hadn't realized he'd written more. I might tear through the entire series from the start!